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17-letter words containing s, i, d, l

  • secondary sealing — Secondary sealing is a system of wiper seals used in floating roof tanks.
  • securities dealer — a person who buys and sells securities
  • self-administered — to manage (affairs, a government, etc.); have executive charge of: to administer the law.
  • self-aggrandizing — increase of one's own power, wealth, etc., usually aggressively.
  • self-belay device — (in climbing) a device used to pay out a safety rope as required
  • self-commendation — the act of commending; recommendation; praise: commendation for a job well done.
  • self-condemnation — the act of condemning.
  • self-conditioning — Also called operant conditioning, instrumental conditioning. a process of changing behavior by rewarding or punishing a subject each time an action is performed until the subject associates the action with pleasure or distress.
  • self-depreciating — self-deprecating.
  • self-dissociation — an act or instance of dissociating.
  • self-introduction — the act of introducing or the state of being introduced.
  • self-reproduction — the act or process of reproducing.
  • semi-skimmed milk — half-fat dairy product
  • seven deadly sins — Christianity: worst vices
  • sexual dimorphism — the condition in which the males and females in a species are morphologically different, as with many birds.
  • sheltered housing — accommodation designed esp for the elderly or infirm consisting of a group of individual premises, often with some shared facilities and a caretaker
  • shopping bag lady — bag lady (def 1).
  • shopping-bag lady — bag lady (def 1).
  • shuttle diplomacy — diplomatic negotiations carried out by a mediator who travels back and forth between the negotiating parties.
  • side-valve engine — a type of internal-combustion engine in which the inlet and exhaust valves are in the cylinder block at the side of the pistons
  • sidesaddle flower — a pitcher plant, Sarracenia purpurea.
  • sidewall sampling — Sidewall sampling is the process of taking a sample from the wall of the borehole.
  • signed and sealed — If you say that an agreement is signed and sealed, or signed, sealed and delivered, you mean that it is absolutely definite because everyone involved has signed all the legal documents.
  • silver star medal — a U.S. military decoration in the form of a bronze star with a small silver star at the center, awarded for gallantry in action
  • simulated leather — fake leather that is an imitation of real leather and is usually made from a cheaper material
  • sinbad the sailor — a merchant in The Arabian Nights who makes seven adventurous voyages
  • single-sheet feed — a mechanism for feeding or taking single sheets of paper into a printer
  • single-sided disk — a disk that used only one side for recording data
  • single-track road — a road that is only wide enough for one vehicle
  • sleep deprivation — a condition in which you have not had enough sleep
  • slenderness ratio — aspect ratio (def 4a).
  • slenderness-ratio — Aeronautics. the ratio of the span of an airfoil to its mean chord.
  • sliding vane pump — A sliding vane pump is a pump in which the vanes (=flat parts) are the main sealing element between the suction and discharge areas.
  • slings and arrows — Slings and arrows are unpleasant things that happen to you and that are not your fault.
  • small-leaved lime — Tilia cordata: a tiliaceous deciduous tree of the N temperate genus Tilia, having heart-shaped leaves and small fragrant yellowish flowers: cultivated for timber and as shade trees
  • smarandache logic — neutrosophic logic
  • smoke-filled room — a place, as a hotel room, for conducting secret negotiations, effecting compromises, devising strategy, etc.
  • social democratic — A social democratic party is a political party whose principles are based on social democracy.
  • socially excluded — suffering from social exclusion
  • socially included — benefiting from social inclusion
  • sodium salicylate — a white, crystalline compound, C 7 H 5 NaO 3 , soluble in water, alcohol, and glycerol: used in medicine as an analgesic, antipyretic, and anti-inflammatory, and as a preservative.
  • sodium-vapor lamp — an electric lamp in which sodium vapor is activated by current passing between two electrodes, producing a yellow, glareless light: used on streets and highways.
  • sorolla y bastida — Joaquín [hwah-keen] /ʰwɑˈkin/ (Show IPA), 1863–1923, Spanish painter.
  • south farmingdale — a town on central Long Island, in SE New York.
  • south sea islands — the islands in the S Pacific that constitute Oceania
  • special education — education that is modified or particularized for those with singular needs, as disabled or maladjusted people, slow learners, or gifted children.
  • speech difficulty — a problem encountered in speaking
  • split keyboarding — the act or practice of editing data from one terminal on another terminal
  • split one's sides — to laugh very heartily
  • spondylolisthesis — the forward displacement of a vertebra.
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